- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush. - Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. - Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, … - Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican from the 1980s onward, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. - Scooter Libby
I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, Jr. (born August 22, 1950) is a Jewish-American lawyer and former top aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was Cheney's Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 2001 to 2005. His "constant presence behind the scenes in the Bush administration" brought him the nickname "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney." During the George H. W. Bush administration, … - Bill Kristol
William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is a American neoconservative pundit, inspired in part by the ideas of Leo Strauss. He is the son of Irving Kristol, who is considered to be one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, and Gertrude Himmelfarb, a scholar of the Victorian era in literature. - Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz (b. Brooklyn, New York, January 16, 1930) is son of a Jewish immigrant from the Central European region of Galicia who was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a low-income neighborhood in racial transition. Podhoretz's family was left-wing, with his elder sister joining a socialist youth movement. Podhoretz received bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University-where he studied under Lionel Trilling-and the Jewish Theological Seminary. - Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol (born January 22, 1920, New York City) is considered the founder of American neoconservatism. He is married to conservative author and emeritus professor Gertrude Himmelfarb and is the father of William Kristol. He describes himself as a "liberal mugged by reality". Kristol was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York and, although he had a bar mitzvah, says that belief had nothing to do with his family's observance. - Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. - Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration. - Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to "National Review". Ledeen was a founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the "Washington Post" alleged that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor, as his main international affairs adviser. - Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer, (born 13 March 1950), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest commentator on "Fox News". His print work appears in the "Washington Post", "Time" magazine and "The Weekly Standard". - Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 - October 18, 1973), was a German-born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy. He spent most of his career as a Political Science Professor at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of devoted students and published fifteen books. - David Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic. - Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights. - Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth , England ) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College , Oxford , in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in Britain as book reviewer for The Times newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for Harper's , Vanity Fair and The Nation . - Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During Bush's first term in office, he was appointed the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. - Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi,<sup>1</sup> (born October 30, 1944) was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not awarded a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American neoconservatives, … - David Frum
David J. Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. He remains involved in political activities in both the United States and Canada, and his editorial columns have appeared in a variety of Canadian and American magazines and newspapers. - Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, was the 43rd Governor of Florida, in the United States, as well as the first Republican to be re-elected to that office. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the younger brother of current President George W. Bush; the older brother of Neil Bush, Marvin Bush and Dorothy Bush Koch; and the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush. - Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad is the program directory for strategy, doctrine, and force structure of RAND's Project AIR FORCE and director of RAND's Greater Middle East Studies Center. He was assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy planning between January 1991 and December 1992. - David Wurmser
David Wurmser is a Swiss-American dual citizen and the Middle East Adviser to US Vice President Dick Cheney. Wurmser, a neoconservative, previously served as special assistant to John R. Bolton at the State Department and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). - Max Boot
Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American author, editorialist, lecturer and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for neoconservative foreign policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to "The Weekly Standard", … - Frank Gaffney
Despite his often extremist views, Gaffney is frequently cited in the press as an "expert" on U.S. foreign policy, appearing regularly on the BBC and other radio and TV broadcasts. He is also a prolific writer, having published in most major media outlets and opinion journals, including the Wall Street Journal , USA Today , The New Republic , Washington Post , New York Times , Christian Science Monitor , Los Angeles Times , National Review , Newsday , and Commentary magazine. - Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn (born 1959) is a Canadian journalist, columnist, and film and music critic. In recent years, he has written mostly about politics, from a conservative viewpoint. His 2006 book, "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It", was a "New York Times" Bestseller. - Joshua Muravchik
Mr. Muravchik is a resident scholar at AEI who studies the United Nations, neoconservatism, the history of socialism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, global democracy, terrorism, and the Bush Doctrine. In March 2007, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Mr. Muravchik to serve on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. - Laura Ingraham
After graduating from Dartmouth College, Laura worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. She went on to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. She served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926-2006) Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN American Enterprise Institute: Former Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracies: Former Board Member - Gary Bauer
Gary L. Bauer (born May 4, 1946, in Covington, Kentucky) is a conservative American politician notable for his ties to several evangelical Christian groups and campaigns. In 1973, Bauer received a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University. He served as Ronald Reagan's Undersecretary of Education from 1982 to 1987, and as an advisor on domestic policy from 1987 to 1988. In 1999, Bauer resigned his post at the Family Research Council, which he held since 1988, … - Kenneth Adelman
Ken Adelman is an American diplomat. He was the deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for two-and a half years, working with Jeanne Kirkpatrick. He also served as the Director of the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency for nearly five years, during the Reagan administration. He was an advisor to President Ronald Reagan during the superpower summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. - William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Bennett was born in Brooklyn but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School. - Midge Decter
Midge Decter (b. July 25, 1927 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American neoconservative journalist and author of various books, including: *"Losing the First Battle, Winning the War" *"The liberated woman and other Americans" *"Liberal Parents, … - John R. Bolton
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948), is an American diplomat in several Republican administrations, served as the interim U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the title of ambassador, from August 2005 until December 2006, on a recess appointment. His letter of resignation from the Bush Administration was accepted on December 4, 2006, effective when his recess appointment ended December 9 at the formal adjournment of the 109th Congress. - Michael Lind
Michael Lind (born in 1962) is an American journalist and historian, currently the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. Ideologically, he has gone from liberal (in his college years) to neoconservative (in graduate school and directly afterward) to radical centrist (present). He holds a B.A. from the University of Texas, an M.A. from Yale University, and a J.D. from University of Texas. - Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard . From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator. - John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz (born April 18 1961) is a U.S. neoconservative commentator for a variety of media sources, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter. - Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his views on imperialism and the origins of conflict in the twentieth century. After attending The Glasgow Academy, he was educated as a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ's College Cambridge University, in 1989, … - Meyrav Wurmser
Dr. Meyrav Wurmser , the former Executive Director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), is a leading scholar of the Arab world. Dr. Wurmser is a frequent guest on radio and television, including BBC, Fox News, CNN, PBS and CNBC. - Frederick Kagan
Born in Lithuania in 1932, Kagan moved at age 2 to Brooklyn, where his view of the importance of violence in human relations was shaped at an early age. "When I walked to school, I had to worry over whether I'd be attacked," he later reminisced. "And I sometimes was" ( Yale Alumni Magazine , April 2002). After receiving a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and a master's from Brown University, Kagan attended graduate school, studying ancient history at Ohio State University. - Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, …
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